ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 26th of November SAINT GUMBERT OF ANSBACH Saint Gumbert, who is also spelled Cumbertus, Cunihertus, Gudbertus, Gundpertus, Gundebertus, Guadelbertus, Grumbertus, lived in the 8th century (perhaps still at the beginning of the 9th) in Ansbach in Franconia [Germany]. He was, according to the most reliable research, a knight (miles) of noble lineage, but nevertheless neither - as is sometimes erroneously stated - a duke of Franconia nor a count of Rothenburg on the Tauber. Pious from his youth, he lived poor in the midst of riches, sober and simple in the midst of pleasures, thinking only of God and serving Him and neighbour with a most lively faith. This was the way of life he had learned from Bishop Burchard of Würzburg, his teacher, who himself had been a student of the great St Boniface. Gumbert donated any excess of his income to churches in need, especially the cathedral of Würzburg. He built and endowed ...